Situated cognition and the study of culture: an introduction

The article surveys three major positions in early debates about situated cognition in the 1990s as they are represented in particular in the work of Edwin Hutchins, Jean Lave, Etienne Wenger, Tim van Gelder, Andy Clark, Jerome Bruner and John Haugeland. Rather than arbitrate among the three positio...

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Main Author: Morgan, B
Format: Journal article
Published: Duke University Press 2017
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